Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-25
MATRIMONIAL AGENT.


thtt w itr IN ii"Ah NAHbNN' "iaN y
plcxiiy. AT a glance the most super
fetal observer could see that the course
OF true love was not running smoothly.
cts beas,ly shame, Polly" he OBJ
served, as they turned back at the
fountain near Grosvenor Gate in Hyde
Park and began retFacing their steps in
the direction of the interior. "Tve
great mind TO take an action against
him"
lob, Dick !"
81 would, thonqh-as soon as not.
OF course, he knows that for your sake
/ won't do so. lie takesamean adyan-
taee, you see. But when man shuts
his door against you without rhyme or
reason, AID cuts you dead in the public
street, tell you what, Polly, he is
bound to give satisfaction
The maiden was scared by this terri
bic language, not knowing what pOrtent
IL bore. From the way in which her
lover put it. land Polly Hinton. like all
good girls, had boundless faith in her
lover il did indeed seem as though her
father owed Mr.. Richard Hammond
1.-THE lover aforesaid reparaiion righte-
GUS and ample for closing his door
against that young man, and, in a word,
dropping him with unequivocal en-
phasis.
OF course IL was all over the girl.
While Mr.. Paul Hinton. the solicitor,
lived at Chaplain (Which was for many
years OF his life and all the years Of
Polly's), Mr. Richard Hammond was a
daily aud familiar visitor, being the
son of an old friend. But in a fatal
hour brother of Nh hinton died in
Australia. leaving $4,000 to the soil
citor, which, with bis ample profes-
sional savings, made him at once q
wealthy man, aud suggested the i'm
poratiye propriety of taking house in
Park street. Ii was this house in Park
street which refused to know Dick
Hammond. 1t was the inflated owner
of that house who "cut" him in the
street. because, now she was a West
End heiress, Mr. Hinton had other and
ambitions views for his daughter. Mr..
Richard Hammond was nobody, and,
what was worse, was never likely to be
anybody deserving to be thought of by
an beirtss.
II modified that young mans indig-
nation a good deal TO receive the soft
and honest assurance that he was all
the world to Polly. and that her little
heart was and would always be true as
steel to him. He had not doubt as to
this, but still the situation was cmbar-
RAISING.
Its an Internally mean thing,
now" hc pointed ont, "to have TO
sneak about here on the sly in order to
meet you, Polly. If l could get along
without meeting you ! would, but
can't, you know. And if We ran away.
Polly" he added. in q matter of-fact
way, "we should have nothing to live
on. A hundred year wouldn't 50 far,
would it ?"
Poly drew deep breath at this
81 am always SO happy to come ont
and meet you, dear Dick, she simply
said
"Of course, answered Dick &" but
That's not the thing, Polly. The ques-
ton is, would You he satisfied 70 % on
always meeting NE in seer Ike this,
until We were both a. Oil as M.tAu-
solah 2"
She made no attempt 70 reply to this
impressive question, which involved
many important considerations. For
several minutes there was silence be
tween them. lr liammond Che while,
smoking Vigorously; then lie rather
startled the eiIl by saying abruptly:
"You will be guided 10y mo in all
this business, Polly?'
"W bat business, Dick 2
This business, of course he an
swered a trlhe inpatiently. Pm not
going to put mp with it, you know aud
I'm not going to let your father do rs
he chooses with you, am ? You be-
long to me more than TO him, don't
you
1t was hard question to answer. but
Polly pressed his arm with her hand.
She admitted choeriully in that man
ner that she "belouged' to him.
every WELL" said Mr.. Hammond.
"Of course you will be guided 10y me
in this business. We are not going to
put mp with it.
"But what are you going to do,
Dick ?" she asked, a little frightened
"Pve not quite decided yet, he an
svered, looking terrible, but L VII!
let Won know in. time I'm going to
Put the case in the hands OF prolos-
sional man tomorrow.
"What case, dear Dick ?" She was
getting thoroughly frightened now.
Was Dick going to law, to expose them
TO all the world and make matters
worse than ever? As a lawyers child
Polly had an instructive feeling that
lawsuits were not calculated to make
people friends.
"Cur case, Polly. Yours and mine
We can't stand this, you know, and We
won't If | had done anything tC
lower myself-but he knows 1 haven't
I'm the same as | always have been
so are You, Polly, and 50 is your father
if he could see himself rightly. But
be thinks himself zoo great and grand
row to know one like me, and, most o.
al, to let you know ne. Never mind
The manner Of this last exclamation
was very fine. and conveyed great
deal. Polly did not answer Only she
was determined Dick should not d(
anything 50 foolish as to go 10 law witt
man ;or declining his further ac
Quaintance. -,
81 didn't say was going to law, hi
said, when she asked him the question
al only said | was going to consult
professional man. lie is IN old chuu
of mine, too, which is still better"
ais lie a lawyer?" Polly asked, re
specially.
"Weli," her lover answered, rlthe
pnzzled, 81 cant exactly say-he is
professional man, and has an Office an'
n clerk and ell that sort of thing, and
brass door-plate. and he's very clege
fellow, Polly, is Albert Horny b
added confdentialiy. " He will do tn
business if any man can.
Soon afterWard Gt being sufficient
dark Mr.. Dick Hammond kissed Tia
maiden by the fountain aforementior
ed ard sent her home, having promise
tomeet her again the following eyenin
after he had consulted the professions
man. Mary Hinton tripped across tn
road and was at home in few minutes
where her immediate duty now was t
dress for dinner at 3 (at Chaplain the
dined earlier) and play the hostess I
certain society "swells," who honore
her silly fathers table IN return for h